Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2017-7654

• Record #: SO2017-7654
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 10/18/2017
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
• Final action: 11/21/2017
• Title: CDBG Year XLIV Ordinance, as amended
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: BUDGET & APPROPRIATIONS - CDBG - Year XLIV

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
12/4/2017		Office of the Mayor	Signed by Mayor
11/21/2017	61705	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
11/15/2017	61049	City Council	Deferred and Published	Pass
11/13/2017		Committee on Budget and Government Operations
10/18/2017	58383	City Council	Referred

THE YEAR XLIV (44) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, pursuant to the enactment of the Federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (the "Act"), the City of Chicago proposes to submit the Action Plan for Year XLIV Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG") funds, unexpended funds of prior federal years and related revenues in the amount of eighty-one million, two-hundred-arid-twelve thousand dollars ($81,212,000.00), plus entitlement funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program ("HOME"), the Emergency Solutions Grant ("ESG"), and'the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Grant ("HOPWA"). Appropriation for HOME, ESG and FIOPWA is being made concurrently in the Annual Appropriation Ordinance for the associated fiscal year; and

WHEREAS, it is provided in the Act and in regulations promulgated thereunder that the City-provide certain assurances to the federal government; and

WHEREAS, the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Chicago are Cognizant of the conditions of the Act, and are desirous of complying therewith; and

WHEREAS, the Mayor, and the City Council are desirous of establishing procedures which insure fair, open and equitable administration of federal grant funds; and

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago is a home rule unit of government as defined in Article VII, Section 6(a) of the Illinois Constitution, and as such may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, the management of its finances is a matter pertaining to the government and affairs of the City; how, therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. The Mayor of the City of Chicago is hereby authorized to make Year XLIV submission for funds, including the Strategic Plan, which outlines the final statement of objectives and projected use of funds, in the sum of eighty-one million, two-hundred-and-twelve thousand dollars ($81,212,000.00) in CDBG fund...